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Cracking the Code All portfolio strategies depend on the expected level of stock market volatility. The assumed future volatilities of equities and other risky assets have substantial implications for determining whether a specific portfolio is suitable to an investor's needs. |
Financial Advisor
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James Picerno |
Can Volatility Be Tamed? Yes, according to a new breed of equity hedging strategies. |
Financial Advisor
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Is Risk Really A Four Letter Word? Once esoteric investing strategies, such as managed currency and commodity futures, real estate, short selling, arbitrage and event-driven strategies, allow portfolio risk management to be taken to the next level. Advisers, take note. |
Financial Planning
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Are Stocks Really More Volatile Now? The stock market has been more erratic in recent years - but not as much as you might think. |
Financial Advisor
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Investment Advisor
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Risk Manager A view from the trenches on the benefits and drawbacks of the financial planning profession's Monte Carlo simulation. When the software is used properly, the client wins, the practitioner wins, and the financial services industry wins. |
The Motley Fool
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Market Zigzags and Your Money Unless you stick with ultra-safe investments such as Treasury bills or bank CDs, volatility and investing go hand-in-hand. |
Registered Rep.
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Are Risk Parity Funds Worth The Cost? A while back, risk parity was all the rage among institutional investors. And now, thanks to a raft of mutual funds floated over the past five years, retail investors are able to tap into the strategy. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2006
Bob Veres |
Investment Heresies Advisers need to stay open to any new theories that test the value of Modern Portfolio Theory. Based on an informal survey, more than half of all advisers are making at least small deviations from a strict MPT/MVO strategy. So the profession is already beyond the current paradigm. |
The Motley Fool
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How Risky Are Your Stocks? To know what the future may bring, you can't just look at past returns. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Downes |
Seeing Tomorrow Clients probably know how hard it is to pick outperforming stocks. What they may not fully grasp is how hard it is to choose a winning mutual fund or separate account manager. Advisors would be wise to keep up on the latest tools, since the retail set is far more sophisticated than ever. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
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Strength In Numbers Indexing is moving past the standard beta carve-ups, such as small- vs. large-cap equities and value vs. growth stocks. A new era of factor-based indexing is dawning, and it promises to be far more nuanced and complicated. |
The Motley Fool
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Volatility: Friend or Foe? By being aware of volatility and taking steps to reduce it, while also making the most of the opportunities it brings, you can not only improve your investment returns, but also avoid the anxiety of dramatic movements in your net worth. |
The Motley Fool
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Risky Business? Wall Street fears market gyrations, but history shows volatility breeds profits. |
Financial Advisor
December 2011
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The VIX Fix Where in the past there was a sense of sanity, today each morning brings only apprehensions about how to understand and manage market volatility. |
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Carl Richards |
What We Learned from the Market Collapse Finance experts and other observers offer their take on the market crisis. |
Financial Advisor
May 2009
David J. Drucker |
Does Asset Allocation Need A Facelift? Has the 2008 stock market changed the rules of asset allocation and how we manage asset volatility? |
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August 2010
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Searching For Progress Financial innovation is under fire. Failing to beat the market is only one reason. |
On Wall Street
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Why Risk It? Don't judge, just advise. That has always been one of our mantras as we've developed strong relationships with our clients over the years. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2012
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New Meets Old: Measuring Gold Market Risk Is it just too late in gold's bull market to justify the risk of entry? |
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February 1, 2013
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Fine-Tuning a Portfolio Gets Year off to a Good Start The beginning of a year offers an opportunity to see how investments align with life goals. |
BusinessWeek
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Louis Lavelle |
Stock Options: The Fuzzy New Math In solving one problem by forcing companies to recognize that options have a cost, we've created something equally complex: Shareholders will have no way of knowing whether their companies are accurately estimating expenses or engaging in wishful thinking to burnish the bottom line. |
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James Picerno |
Economic Justice The details of how the business cycle affects the equity risk premium are emerging ... slowly. |
Financial Advisor
June 2011
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Macro And Markets Two sides of the risk management coin. |
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